new moebius creature model

[Count_Zirock]

This is probably a really dumb question, so I'm sorry..but what is a kit?  Like..what is this?  A non painted statue thing?

You've got a lot of catching up to do!
Scale models & kits

[Universal_Adam]

You've got a lot of catching up to do!
Scale models & kits

Thanks Count!

[zombiehorror]

I really haven't.  I've seen them discussed, but never really knew what they were and I was afraid to ask.

Wow that is amazing!  I was going to ask your age but I see you are 29, I really can't believe that you didn't know what a model kit/model/kit was!?  When did kids stop building and painting models?!  We had it all from dinosaurs, planes, boats/ships/submarines, rocket/spaceships, martians/monsters, etc.  I know there are few hobby shops left but Michaels and Kmart still stock model kits and in the 90's both Wal-Mart and Toys R Us had them!

I'm not calling you out or anything, I just find it fascinating that you didn't know what one was.....Now I have to ask my 15 year old niece if she knows what one is!

[Universal_Adam]

Wow that is amazing!  I was going to ask your age but I see you are 29, I really can't believe that you didn't know what a model kit/model/kit was!?  When did kids stop building and painting models?!  We had it all from dinosaurs, planes, boats/ships/submarines, rocket/spaceships, martians/monsters, etc.  I know there are few hobby shops left but Michaels and Kmart still stock model kits and in the 90's both Wal-Mart and Toys R Us had them!

I'm not calling you out or anything, I just find it fascinating that you didn't know what one was.....Now I have to ask my 15 year old niece if she knows what one is!

Well I know what Models are..like airplanes and cars etc.  But I didn't know that it was expanded beyod that.  Like..I didn't know you could build and put together a little Monster Scene.  I haven't seen that before. 
I've never put a model together though.  Maybe it's time to start lol

[zombiehorror]

Well I know what Models are..like airplanes and cars etc.  But I didn't know that it was expanded beyod that.  Like..I didn't know you could build and put together a little Monster Scene.  I haven't seen that before. 
I've never put a model together though.  Maybe it's time to start lol

Ummmm....Yes, definitely time to start!!  A good place to start may be with the Aurora monsters or on the cheaper end the Revell reissues of those classic kits!

[Count_Zirock]

And, it's NOT a dumb question, for a very sad reason. MOST retail chains have stopped carrying model kits. Wal-Mart and Target eliminated their model kits from their toy departments years ago. Kmart carries the kits (EXTREMELY limited selection), but no glues or paints. The last time I was in a Toys 'R' Us, I don't remember seeing any kits. No, you have to seek them out, like at Hobby Lobby, Michaels, and other hobby shops. (Garden Ridge no longer stocks them, either.) Or, like most of us, order them online. And, they are expensive  now! Kits that once sold for $2-$5 are now $20-$50! Paints and glue, once around a dime, can run $2-$4 a bottle.

[aura of foreboding]

Well I know what Models are..like airplanes and cars etc.  But I didn't know that it was expanded beyod that.  Like..I didn't know you could build and put together a little Monster Scene.  I haven't seen that before. 
I've never put a model together though.  Maybe it's time to start lol

Heck, even I grew up with monster models on the shelves - drug stores, grocery stores, Shopko, and, of course, Toys R Us - and I am younger than you.  It must be where you live. 

(I am beginning to fear a large section of this country for several reasons which have made themselves very apparent on this very board.  )

[Count_Zirock]

Heck, even I grew up with monster models on the shelves - drug stores, grocery stores, Shopko, and, of course, Toys R Us - and I am younger than you.  It must be where you live. 

(I am beginning to fear a large section of this country for several reasons which have made themselves very apparent on this very board.  )

I thank Yog-Sothoth every day that I was born and raised in the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area during the '60s and '70s. Thanks to a lot of now-dead department stores (Two Guys, Korvettes, Kresge's, Valley Fair, Great Eastern), my lust for monsters was always satisfied.

[Universal_Adam]

I'm in Wisconsin.  Apparently we don't have that stuff. lol

[Count_Zirock]

I'm in Wisconsin.  Apparently we don't have that stuff. lol

No one does, anymore. Those stores are all long gone. The last Valley Fair I know of still in operation is in Irvington, NJ. The last time I was in it, it was a real dump. They had to block off the groceries from the rest of the store because of thefts.

[spideydroogy]

How about Woolworth's, Ben Franklin's five & dime, Woolco, Atlantic Mills, Zayre's, Lionel Toy Warehouse, Children's Palace? Anybody remember those?  I bought a few of my models from some of those locations.  Atlantic Mills had giant bins full of every variety of the  Marx six inch figures.  At least they looked giant to a 9 year old.

[empty13]

i grew up in rural south texas. there was a ben franklin up the road in kingsville. i remember woolworth's but i dont remember them having models. we had a hobby shop in our little burg for awhile, but not long. i got most of my models at a kmart or (big) kroger's in kingsville. i do hit the local hobby shops here in exciting MI periodically but i get a lot of stuff on the web. if it is old or really specialty, ya have to go there.

[Scatter]

I thank Yog-Sothoth every day that I was born and raised in the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area during the '60s and '70s. Thanks to a lot of now-dead department stores (Two Guys, Korvettes, Kresge's, Valley Fair, Great Eastern), my lust for monsters was always satisfied.

Amen brother!

[Gareee]

* Gareee shakes his head sadly, realizing we are almost loosing the modelling scene I loved as a kid.

Maybe we need some video game character scenes in addition to our old beloved monsters?

[Count_Zirock]

* Gareee shakes his head sadly, realizing we are almost loosing the modelling scene I loved as a kid.

Maybe we need some video game character scenes in addition to our old beloved monsters?

There are some resin kits of videogame characters out there, statues, and even action figures. (I have a bunch of the Playmates Toys "Tomb Raider" figures from the '90s, and bought the "Assassin's Creed" figures from last year, even though I don't play the games-- but I do read the novels based on "Assassin's Creed.") But no styrene kits. Know why? Gamers are too busy gaming to build models! They'll buy prepainted statues and action figures, but not model kits.